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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Daily Kos, FCC, Free Speech, ITU

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 23rd, 2010 at 03:30 AM  | 

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Tech at Night

Hello! As it crosses midnight here in California, I apologize for the lateness but do return with yet another installment of Tech at Night.

Still don’t believe the socialist pushes at the FCC are driven in part by a desire to get free stuff? Take a look at the ITU Broadband Plan for the whole world, what with its insistence that governments must build Internet infrastructure, which of course would result in greater state ownership of the Internet.

Ars Technica points out also that the ITU claims that state Internet development will end poverty and hunger. Talk about socialist utopian thought! And we’re supposed to let these types get more power over the Internet with magical thinking like this?

Of course, plenty do want to do just that anyway. “Hate Speech” is one of the proposed avenues to regulation of content online, exactly the step beyond Deem and Pass Title II Reclassification that we all know would be coming. If the FCC can ignore the Telecommunications Act and claim regulatory powers over the Internet, what’s the First Amendment going to do to stop them?

Daily Kos is getting more active, too. Telecommunications midget CREDO, a socialist-driven corporation, has convinced Daily Kos to join with it to push the Net Neutrality movement. CREDO, a corporation trying to write the rules, insists that corporations shouldn’t get to write their own rules. Presumably instead the corporations who support Free Press and its front group Save The Internet should get to write their own rules instead. Confused? So am I. The Net Neutrality forces aren’t even making any sense anymore. They’re just shouting nonsense and hoping that people follow. When you lose more and more allies as they have, I think that brings just this kind of panic.

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  • Kudzu

    I signed up for email alerts from Daily Kos to see what they pushing for their followers. Amazingly enough (not) they’re litterally throwing everything that is sacred onto the pyre that is politics. They’re trying their hands a money bombs to let Alan “Die Quickly” Grayson keep his seat which means he must be in trouble or in desperate need for attention. Then the net neutrality thing cropped up in the inbox today.

    This was in the first paragraph: “It’s what ensures your ISP can’t privilege Fox News over Daily Kos”

    God they can’t stand Fox News but they go on: “The Daily Kos community is only possible because of net neutrality. It created the free and open Internet, which allowed netroots activism to flourish. Without net neutrality, it would be impossible for smaller websites, such as ours, to compete.”

    So you need the government to step in and protect you before you become irrelevant in the free market or ideas AND commerce? If you didn’t have a FCC regulated net “neutrality” dictate when Daily Kos, Move On, OFA, et all were established why do you need it now? In the age of Democrat no less? We’re all Socialists remember? Least according to Newsweek, Move On, Dailly Kos, OFA…

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    The complete neutering of the 1st Amendment………. “But it’s still valid – The Constitution is in place – See, there it is, right on the wall in The Smithsonian and in the chambers of the totally irrelevant Congress.”

    That’s Obama’s owners’ and Cass “Nudge” Sunstein’s first level below the crowning glory……

    The big one, of course, is to disarm American citizens.

  • GreyCloak

    I got on to ARPANET before Al Gore was ever elected a Representative to the US.

    At 300 BAUD (no mega- or giga- or even kbps attached to it), I pounded away at a teletype (few, if any, here remember “bouncy keys”) in Boston to a correspondent in California. I thought the experience particularly “cool.”

    Several year later, IBM invented “the PC” and even later The Internet came into being.

    Throughout the world, corporations and governments would like to control this “new” phenomenon … but I would remind folks that Government (in perhaps its only good decision in the past fifty years) started it all.

    Governments (including ours) want to restrict this source of free speech, truths and untruths … corporations want to make money from it. The People (all over the world) want to talk!

    Net Neutrality is a good thing. Corporations don’t like it, because they’d like to increase their profits. Government doesn’t like it, because government doesn’t really want free and open expression.

    Politicians want contributions from telecommunications companies, so they dislike an even playing field. Worse yet, they don’t want to hear lies, distortions, and (oops) TRUTHS to be spread around the Internet. To get YOUR vote, they will pander to excluding pornography or religion, eliminating dating sites (“we will find your perfect match”) or business sites (“young female seeking older male,” “athletic dancer seeking similarly-disposed partner”) or political sites (“Join the people’s movement,” “stand up for your race,” “Vote Democratic, Vote Republican”). Of course, only the “bad” sites would be censored.

    Government started the Internet. It should continue to sponsor it, and even make it mandatory (my own telecommunications stocks continue to profit from it). But regulate it? NO WAY!!!

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    is not the futile attempt to stifle free speech. That is not working very well in places that tried it like China and Iran.

    The biggest threat is the attempt by government to try and get their hands on the MONEY that is generated on the Internet.

    They will tax it to death if they get the chance.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    ?The Daily Kos community is only possible because of net neutrality. It created the free and open Internet…”

    Everyone knows AlGore created the internet.